The setting of the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury is set in a large unknown city. The author set the mood of this novel as dark and scary. Many people are being manipulated by the parlors or their televisors so much that they don’t realize what is actually happening in society. Montag is one of the few people who believe books are useful. Other people are just too scared or brainwashed to own books. The main character is Montag. Montag is a 30 year old fireman. He is a determined character that wants to save books. He is the protagonist of this story. The next character is Granger. Granger is an ex-professor. Granger and other ex-professors have spent the past 20 years perfecting the use of photographic memory. Grangers purpose in this story is to help Montag remember the books he has seen before. The third character is Faber. Faber is an ex-professor. He used to each english. Faber has wanted to keep books in society since he was a professor. Faber has been to much of a coward to try and save books.Montag encouraged Faber to help him save books. …show more content…
When Montag meets Clarisse he starts to realize what the society is doing. After Montag’s talk with clarisse he walks home and finds Mildred passed out on the bed because she overdosed on sleeping pills. When Montag finds Mildred he calls people to come do a blood transfer on her. “This machine pumped out all the blood from the body and replaced it with fresh blood and serum”(12). The second main event in this novel is when Montag starts to read. Montag tries to get Mildred to read but she calls the fireman a few days after Montag starts to read. Montag has to go burn his own house. While they were burning the books montag killed Beatty.Later on in the book Montag follows the river to the railroad tracks. When he found the railroad tracks he met a guy named
Montag questions his love for Mildred, and hers in return. He realizes that if Mildred were to die, he would not even be sad. All she seems to care about is her ‘family.’ When they try to remember when, where, and how they met [and realize they can’t remember], Montag starts to realize that he is in a loveless marriage.
Guy Montag is a fireman. This job is a lot different than the firemen we know today, these firemen start fires instead of putting them out. They burn books for a living. Book have been outlawed and need to be burned because they give people contradicting views and the government just wants everything to be simple and ”happy”. Montag has it in his mind that he is very happy but soon realises after burning an innocent old woman alive that he isn’t as happy as he seems to believe he is.
Beatty leaves and Montag begins to read. As he is reading he begins to realize that he is going to need help to understand what the books are saying. He then goes and visits an old English professor in hopes that he will help him to understand. He talks with Faber for a while and Faber eventually agrees to help him. After talking to Faber Montag goes home to get a book to bring to his boss.
In the house there are many books and one old lady who refuses to leave the house. Beatty coldheartedly lights the house on fire with the lady inside. Montag saw this and grabbed a book and hid it before he left the house. He had stolen the book and had it with him which is a major crime. He knows it is wrong but he takes the book home anyway to find out what people like about books.
Montag experiences a similar situation to the one Clarisse died
He accidentally kicks an empty bottle of sleeping pills in there and calls the hospital just as a sonic boom. Two cynical hospital workers arrive with a machine that pumps Mildred’s stomach and another that replaces all her poisoned blood with fresh blood. Montag goes outside and listens to the laughter and the voices coming from the brightly lit McClellan house. Montag goes inside again and considers all that has happened to him that night. He feels terribly disoriented as he takes a sleep lozenge and dozes off.
He also met an old, white-haired, cowering english professor, Mr. Faber, that still idealized books. Together, they formed a plan to print multiple copies of the books he had stolen. Towards the middle of the book, Montag got frustrated with the
A family had good relationships, the mom and the dad love each other, and the daughter and son respect their mom and dad. But that all changed when the son and daughter got smartphones. The son and daughter become more distant and less respectful to their parents, and eventually the relationship between the son and daughter, and the mom and dad became non existent. The family fell apart because the son and daughter became more and more distant from their parents because of their smartphones, a form of technology. In Ray Bradbury’s book “Fahrenheit 451”, he covers many topics: education, censorship, and technology.
Fahrenheit 451 centralises around the protagonist who is a fireman named Guy Montag. Guy Montag is a fireman who burns books for a living, "It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. " People within this society do not ejoy nature, think independently, spend time by themselves, have conversations that mean things and most of all don't read books. Instead, they drive very fast and watch excessive amounts of television. Montag is a character that had a lot of self-conflict and lacks knowledge and believes what he hears, which is apparent early on in the text "There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there.
The supporting characters of Mildred, Beatty, and Clarisse were all integral to Montag’s growth. Mildred helped Montag realize that something was wrong in society when she tried to commit suicide, but did not remember it. This is because Mildred’s subconcious was trying to save her from her fate of being a sheep, but consciously she is not smart enough to realize
Montag lives with his wife, Mildred, and works as a fireman who burns books along with the houses that they belong to. For Montag, burning books was a pleasure and he convinces himself that he loves his job. But Montag’s character developed more as the story continued on. Events that caused a change in Montag’s personality was when he first talked with Clarisse, when he saw Mildred attempting suicide, when he stole a book while burning a house, when Montag goes to see Faber, and when Montag sees a woman kill herself along with her books.
Imagine living in a world where no conversation occurs, no one has time to think, and everything is fast paced. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, the author, Ray Bradbury, writes about such a world in his futuristic society. The main character of this book, Guy Montag, is a firefighter living in Bradbury’s futuristic world. Throughout the novel, Montag meets people who put a sense of reality into him. The two themes, cultures, and characters are essential elements in this dystopian society.
Firstly, Montag stole a book to try and discover what he is missing not reading them. Clarisse at random asked Montag if he was happy, and it had never came across to Montag if he was happy. People in their society really didn't feel at all. The old woman that had rather die with her books than give them up, began to make Montag curious on why they were so special. He began to question every aspect in his life, when he does, Mildred tells Montag he should have thought before becoming a fireman.
His contact with a 17 year old girl named Clarisse McClellan, an elderly woman who was willing to die for her books, and an old professor named Faber, help Montag start to question things and begin a transformation that takes him from the rule following, book burner; to an idea challenging, book reader
Ray Bradbury 's novel Fahrenheit 451 delineates a society where books and quality information are censored while useless media is consumed daily by the citizens. Through the use of the character Mildred as a foil to contrast the distinct coming of age journey of the protagonist Guy Montag, Bradbury highlights the dangers of ignorance in a totalitarian society as well as the importance of critical thinking. From the beginning of the story, the author automatically epitomizes Mildred as a direct embodiment of the rest of the society: she overdoses, consumes a vast amount of mindless television, and is oblivious to the despotic and manipulative government. Bradbury utilizes Mildred as a symbol of ignorance to emphasize how a population will be devoid of the ability to think critically while living in a totalitarian society. Before Montag meets Clarisse, he is